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Subject: [ZA-EC] CAPE AND NATAL NEWS 01 APRIL 1861
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 00:32:17 -0800 (PST)
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The Norman is the next outward steamer, and will take the following passengers :-

Mr. and Mrs. SHARP,
Mr. BERRY
Mr. C. HAWKSLEY,
Mr. JESSUP,
Rev. and Mrs. H.D. BURRUP
Mr. DICKINSON
Mr. BLAIR
Mr. CLARKE and female servant
Mrs. GOODBAN
Mr. and Mrs. J. EATON, infant and servant
Mr. BALL
Mr. MARTIN
Mr. BULKELEY
Mrs. READ
Mrs. PULLEN
Mr. and Mrs. CAWOOD, two children
Mr. CARBALHO
Mr.
MARTIN,
Mrs.  CONSIDYNE, 2 daughters and a son
Mr. H. RUDD.

The
Miles Barton, Captain Shelburne, with the 1st battalion of the 3d Buffs
on board from China, was lost in Struy's Bay on Feb. 8. All hands
saved.

We regret to notice by this mail the death of Mr. George
ROBINSON, at his residence, Bayside, Natal. The deceased was for nearly
eight
years the
editor and proprietor of the Natal Mercury, which he founded, and ever
afterwards conducted on principles which were broad, liberal,
consistent, and eminently in accordance with the enlightened spirit of
age.

WESTERN PROVINCE

The Midlothian, a barque of 393
tons, Captain H.S. WALLACE, had arrived in Table Bay, bringing 37
artizans and a large amount of plant for the breakwater. An accident
attended with very serious consequences happened on the voyage. One of
the passengers carelessly sat on deck with a loaded pistol in his
pocket, by some mischance the pistol went off, and the ball entered the
body of Mr. BLACKMORE, who was standing close by, immediately above the
hip, and passed right through. The wounded man immediately received
every attention, and serious as was the disaster, he is rapidly
recovering.

Since the commencement of the railway works, 200 births had taken place amongst the wives of the navvies employed upon the
line.

The new organ just erected in the cathedral has proved to be an instrument of fine tone and considerable power. It was built by
Messrs. Bevington, of London, and was used for the first time in the public services of the church on Sunday 17th February.

A
melancholy affair occurred on Feb. 19, in the Castle Barracks.
Assistant-Surgeon DYER, attached to the Hospital Army Corps, put an end
to his existence by cutting his throat. The unfortunate young gentleman
arrived at Cape Town on the 17th September in the ship Thames, and was
but twenty-four or twenty-five years of age.

Mr. DENYSSEN has
been offered the judgeship of British Kaffraria, at a salary of
800pounds a year, it is believed that the offer has been accepted.

PARLIAMENTARY
- Mr. Joseph MOSENTHAL, head of the extensive firm of Mosenthal
Brothers in Cape Town, has been elected to represent the Eastern
Division, in the place of Mr. John PATERSON, as a member of the
Legislative Council.
Several other vacancies have occurred at Graham's Town by the resignation of J.H. GREATHEAD, and at Graaff-Reinet by
the retirement of Mr. MEINTJES.

Dr. Ebden, son of an old and
esteemed colonist, J.B. EBDEN, has sent for the Botanic Garden here, per
Malborough from India, a valuable medicinal plant, the Bael fruit, or
Bengal quince. The doctor, addressing Mr. McGIBBON, says, "I send you,
for your botanic garden, plants of the Bael, so universally famed now as
a remedy for chronic bowel diseases. I hope earnestly they will thrive,
and in after years prove very useful to future generations of South
Africanders.

DEATH OF THE REV. DE SMIDT. :- It is with regret  we
have to announce the death of this much esteemed and earnest pastor of
the Dutch Reformed Church. Mr. DE SMIDT had for some weeks been very
anxiously exerting himself amongst the sick in Robertson, especially
amongst his own congregation. At last the typhus fever seized him in his
labours, and he removed to Montagu, hoping thereby to ward off the
effect of the disorder. But it was useless,
and on Monday last, at the early age of twenty-eight years, this able,
zealous, amiable, and highly esteemed clergyman breathed his last. His
loss will be severely felt by the orthodox party in the Church, but in
Robertson his absence will be particularly lamented.

EASTERN PROVINCE

Port
Elizabeth is to have its own arms. The following description of the
sketch brought up by a committee consisting of Messes. Adler KEMSLEY,
PERKINS, KIRKWOOD, and PEARSON, will convey to all interested in such
matters and idea what the committee will probably recommend - "Or, - on a
chevron azure, (between two light-houses, sable, - burning proper, -
and an anchor, in base, sable, cable, - gules) - three golden fleeces -
or- banded gules. Supporters - on the dexter side a ram ermine, armed,
or - on the sinister, a sea lion, or, and azure. Crest - on a cap of
maintenance, gules, turned up - ermine, the monument proper. " Motto -
Grandescunt aucta
labore"

SALE OF FARMS : - A very extensive sale of landed
property in the Eastern Province has just been held by Messrs. LAWRANCE
and OSMOND, consisting of several farms belonging to Messrs. DELL and
bought by them from the estate of the late Mr. HOWSE.
The farm
adjoining the foregoing, belonging to Mr. H. BROWNE, advertised to be
sold after the foregoing, was stated to have been disposed of privately
to Mr. SHELVER for 2,500pounds, a high price considering the nature of
the farm, two-thirds of it being unavailable.

NATAL

The
case of BERGTHEIL v. the Natal Trust and Insurance Company, which has
occupied the Supreme Court eleven days, has just terminated in favour of
the defendants. Instead of allowing the plaintiffs' claim altogether
and granted the company's claim in reconvention against the plaintiff
for 961pounds, and, except upon some minor points, condemned Mr.
BERGTHEIL in the entire costs. This case has caused a great
sensation in the colony, the relative position of the parties and the
enormous amount of the claim set up Mr. Bergtheil, the further actions
understood to be threatened by other parties in case of his success,
having caused much curiosity and speculation as to its result, and it
will most probably put an end to all ideas of further proceedings on the
part of others.

Accidents during the past five weeks have been
unusually numerous and unusually terrible in this part of the world. In
the first place, Mr. Surveyor KING, had a very narrow escape of being
carried over the Umgeni Falls, which are 323 feet in height.
Fortunately, he did escape, though he will doubtless ever remember this
terrible passage in his life.
Other accidents, however, have occurred which terminated less happily.
In
the early part of January, Mr. WHEELER, a gentlemen well known in
Natal, was crossing the Tugela, in company with his two daughters, the
eldest a fine girl of
fourteen, when the stream of the river suddenly came down with a
fearful rush, and the advancing tide hit and smashed the cart just as
the front horses touched the bank. The travellers were of course all
precipitated into the angry tide, and in an instant, apparently, the
youngest child was carried away by the stream and drowned. The agonised
father, assisted by a friend, Mr. TRACEY, who travelled with them and
shared the perils of the disaster, made a desperate effort to save his
eldest girl. For a moment he seems to succeed - he swims with his
darling to the bank, from which they have just before been whirled away,
he attempts to clamber up the steep incline, but alas! encumbered as he
is with the senseless form of his child, the ascent is too steep. Of
the three who survived the first shock, only one is destined to regain
the shore alive, the waters overcome even the fathers strength, his
daughter is torn from his arms, and he himself is dragged to
the shore by his friend Mr. Tracey, more dead than alive, and wishing
in the first bitterness of his grief that he had shared the fate by
which his children were so suddenly and terribly overtaken.
On the
29th January, Mrs. HUNT, of Pietermaritzburg, was out on horseback with
her husband, when the animal she rode took fright, threw his rider from
the saddle, and dashed along at full speed, dragging the poor lady after
him. It is fitting that your readers should be spared the recital of
the particulars of the terrible tragedy. It is enough to say that the
steed had proceeded half a mile before he was stopped, and then its
rider was a bruised and bleeding mass, in which life fluttered but for a
moment, and expired. The victim of this melancholy accident was only
twenty-six years of age.

Captain GRANTHAM, R.E. for many years
resident in this colony is about to leave for Graham's Town, and the men
of his department gave him a ball at the
barracks.

Mr. J. RAW, Town Clerk, for many years of Maritzburg,
having resigned, the Town Council of that city have presented him with a
purse and other gratifying testimonials.

Captain ALLAN's steam
yacht was sold the day by Mr. BENNINGFIELD for 157pouns. It is, we
believe to be shipped off to the Mauritius. Natalians cannot afford such
expensive toys as yet.


BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS

CAPE COLONY

BIRTHS

Jan. 27, at Cape Town, the wife of J.  LONG, of a son
Jan. 28, at Cape Town, the wife of J.J. LE SUEUR, of a daughter
Jan. 30, at Cape Town, the wife of J.R. MOORE, of a daughter
Jan. 30, at Cape Town, the wife of F.N. VOGT, of a daughter
Feb. 1, at Malmesbury, the wife of F. SMITH, of a son
Feb. 2, at Cape Town, the wife of H.J. RUSSOUW, of a daughter
Feb. 3, at Beaufort West, the wife of J.A. HONEYBORNE, of a daughter
Feb. 4, at Caledon, the wife of Rev. J.C. WAUGH, of a
son
Feb. 4, at Cape Town, the wife of C.F.B. JURITZ, of a daughter
Feb. 5, at Cape Town, the wife of T. MELVIN, of a daughter
Feb. 10, at Stoney Vale, Fort Beaufort, the wife of G. GILBERT, of a daughter
Feb. 11, at Cape Town, the wife of J. RAWBONE, of a daughter

MARRIAGES

Jan. 23, at Cape Town, C. LINDEMANN, to Miss. S.D.S. SCHOLTZ
Jan. 23, at Cape Town, E.A.F. UCKERMANN, to Miss. A. ROUS
Jan. 27, at Oudtshoorn, J. ANDERSON, to Miss. STRACHAN
Jan. 28, at Cape Town, A.B. STORNOFF, to Miss. J.W. EYMAAL
Jan. 28, at Cape Town, Captain A. DUNCAN, master of the schooner Susan, to Miss A. PHILLIPS
Feb. 4, at Cape Town, Captain D. PATTERSON, of the Maria Burries, to Miss. C.C. EVEREST
Feb. 15, at Cape Town, Lieutenant and Adjutant James Guthrie CRAIG, to Miss. H.M. ROWLEY

Feb. 18, at Cape Town, G.W. THOMAS, to Miss. C.W. SPRUIT

DEATHS

Jan. 21, at Cape Town, T. YOUNGER
Jan. 21, at Montagu, the Rev. C.H. DE SMIDT, aged 29 years
Jan. 24, at Green Point, Mrs. W.C. NEETHLING
Jan. 25, C.M. GRANGER, aged 38 years
Jan. 25, at Port Elizabeth, A. WARES
Jan. 26, at Cape Town, Mrs. A. PETERS, aged 40 years
Jan. 26, at Cape Town, P. ROUX, sen, aged 86 years
Jan. 26, at Cape Town, J.S. PORTER, of Cape Weekly Chronicle, aged 40 years

ORANGE FREE STATE

BIRTH
Jan. 14, at Willow Fontein, Smithfield, Mrs. R.F.A. LAVERS, of a son.

DEATH
Jan. 24, at Willow Fontein, Smithfield, the infant son of Mr. R.F.A. LAVERS, aged 10 days.

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